Higher Education under Late Capitalism

This book explores questions concerning personal identity and individual conduct within neoliberal academe. The author suggests that neoliberal academe is normal academe in the new millennium though well aware of its contested nature and destructive capacities. Examining higher education through a number of ideals, such as austerity and transparency, brings readers on a journey into its present as well as its past. If some of these ideals can be identified and critiqued, there is a chance that the foundations of neoliberal academe can be weakened. This book actively pursues pathways out of the neoliberal abyss--and offers that demanding a role for pleasure in higher education may be one of them.

Examines how issues of class have fared in higher education under late capitalism, specifically the notion of education as a source of class mobility under neoliberalism Explores how debt shapes our identity and conduct in higher education today Offers the idea of 'academic habitus' to explain why higher educational reform moves at a slow pace in spite of widespread dissatisfaction in fundamental economic and managerial conditions of the academy

Autorentext
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction.- 1. The Two Austerities.- 2. Unlit Classrooms.- 3. Higher Hedonism.- 4. Homo Habitus.- 5. Google U.- 6. Against Debt.- 7. Punch the Clock.- 8. The Dark Side.- 9. Breaking Bad.